The Industrial Giant Reborn

After arranging the acquisition of Hutchison Group's shares, Lin Yanming, who was in charge of legal affairs, also came to Chen Zhiwen's office.

"Chen Sheng, I got the photos, look at them." Lin Yanming handed over a stack of photos.

"Yes, this is good news, right? I heard that the management of the Hilton Hotel has sued us to court?" Chen Zhiwen said with a smile after taking the photo. In the photo, there are two men at the rear of two cars with doors When I opened it, there were some photos of moving cardboard boxes, which obviously contained tobacco and alcohol. The environment of the photos was in the woods by the roadside, which looked abnormal.

"Yes, the court also contacted me, saying that unless we have enough evidence to prove that Hilton has committed a major breach of contract, otherwise it will be difficult to win this lawsuit. A friend of mine in the court advised us to pay the money and forget it. Otherwise, if you really go to court, you will have to pay the other party's lawyer's fees and various losses." Lin Yanming said with some embarrassment, although it was because of the domineering contract before, as the person in charge of the company's legal affairs, he lost the first lawsuit It's so useless, but there's nothing you can do about it. Hilton's domineering contract is clearly signed. Even if you invite ten of the most powerful lawyers in Hong Kong, you can't win.

"So the core is the evidence. This photo doesn't seem to be enough?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"It's not enough, but coupled with the reports from Yuele Company and our promotion, it is enough for the ICAC to file a case." Lin Yanming said.

"I remember that person didn't want to be a whistleblower?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"It's enough that the money is in place." Lin Yanming said with a smile.

"Okay, I'm waiting to see a good show." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

Hong Kong, Hilton Hotel:

In a conference room, a dozen or so Chinese and two blond ghosts were sitting together.

"Mr. Silas, the above is the occupancy data of all guest rooms last month. According to the data for the previous six consecutive months, more and more people from overseas have come to Hong Kong. We have successfully achieved profit for nine consecutive months. I Thinking of next year, this data will increase by at least 20%." Du Guoming explained the data of his department in high spirits in front of a mobile blackboard.

"Very good, the U.S. headquarters will be very pleasantly surprised when they get this data. I think, this Christmas, each of us can have a rich bonus." Silas, the person in charge of the Hilton Hotel in Hong Kong, said with a smile.

"Last quarter, the owner's compensation was not paid to us, right? What's the situation with the court?" Another blond ghost suddenly asked, he is the chief financial officer of Hilton Hotel.

Hilton Hotels generally do not send many Americans to its business outside the United States, but first of all, the boss must be an American, and the finance is also, one person controls the other controls the money.

"No, the court seems to want to mediate, and the owner's attitude seems to be a little softer." A Chinese said.

Silas smiled and said, "I thought how tough he could be. I'll let him pay a little more next time. I really thought that after acquiring the property, I would be able to make the decision."

"Dong dong dong" At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and everyone was a little surprised. Generally, no one would disturb the high-level meeting unless there was something important.

The door was quickly opened, and it was another assistant of Silas, followed by several men in suits and tags.

"Who are you?" Silas asked in unproficient Cantonese.

The leader of the man in the suit ignored the ghost, and directly led people towards Du Guoming, saying, "Du Guoming, Mr. Du?"

"Yes, I am." Du Guoming looked at the hair strands of several people.

"Mr. Du, we are the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption. You are involved in a commercial bribery case. Please come back with us to assist in the investigation." The man in the suit said.

"Wait, I'm Hilton's legal manager, what's going on?" A man with glasses stood up and asked.

"We received a report that Du Guoming was suspected of taking bribes from a company called Yuele, and then subcontracted the business under his authority to this company." Although the man in the suit is proud, he still gives face to such a big company.

"Our hotel and this Yuele company are not government departments. You have no right to sue if the relevant stakeholders have not pursued it?" The legal manager responded that internal issues should be handled internally and must not be managed by the outside , let alone let the ICAC, which has just been established and has removed a large number of government officials one after another, investigate. Du Guoming is a trivial matter, and the investigation has really gone deep. Who in this conference room dares to say that they are all right?

"Of course we have the right. This is authorized by the owner of the Hilton Hotel, Chen Zhiwen and Chen Sheng. You can take a look." The leading man in a suit said calmly, "He is the actual owner of the hotel, so he is not a relevant stakeholder?"

"This..." The legal manager was stunned. The hotel owner is of course a relevant stakeholder. Even if he does not have any right to manage the hotel, he has the right to share dividends from the hotel operation. There is a problem with the hotel management, which naturally violates the legal rights of the owner.

An interpreter was translating the conversation for Silas. After listening to it, he also remained silent, just watching the people from the ICAC take away Du Guoming, whose legs were trembling in fright.

The assistant who led the way saw everyone's expressions were unkind, so he quickly backed out and closed the door.

The scene was quiet, and no one should know what to say at this time. In Hong Kong for so many years, this kind of thing has never happened. If it was a few years ago, they would dare to go up and nag, but now they dare not. The Independent Commission Against Corruption is very famous in Hong Kong. I don’t know how many people from high-level government and police officers have fallen into the hands of the ICAC. This kind of Americans dare not be arrogant.

After a while, Silas said, "Carol, go to the police station to find out what's going on with Manager Du?"

"Okay." The assistant on the side quickly agreed, and then hurriedly followed after saying goodbye.

"Okay, that's it for the meeting. Everyone do their own thing." Silas said with an unchanged expression.

The other people at the scene seemed to be in a bad mood, and they all had a heavy heart. No one knew that the ICAC had suddenly attacked Du Guoming. It was just an exception and it started an investigation on the Hong Kong company. In the past six months, the ICAC's reputation has become too great. Usually they are still watching the theater, but today it will be their turn.

After everyone left, Silas said to the financial manager: "Alan, what do you think is going on?"

"Maybe we have gone too far." Alan frowned and said, "Then Eric Chen is also someone who can spend tens of millions of dollars to buy our hotel property. We all think he is very young, but Now it looks like his counterattack has begun."

"By attacking our subordinates? Even if a person has a problem and is found out, so what, if we want to recover the loss, our hotel will still take the big head." Silas still said disdainfully.

"I just suggest you, don't underestimate anyone." Alan frowned and said, "This time we broke the rules first. If there is a big trouble, we will not be able to explain it to the head office."

Although Hilton Hotel's contract is very strong and excludes many unfavorable factors from the contract, why can such a strong contract attract people to cooperate with them?

It is nothing more than the global travel agency cooperation relationship of the entire hotel group and experienced hotel management capabilities. Together, the hotel operating costs are greatly reduced. In this way, Hilton Hotels can directly benefit without investing in huge properties, and owners can Even if Hilton is domineering and has a stable rate of return after investment, as long as it can guarantee profitability, most owners will not care about it, even if they are a little bit offended, as long as the money is in place.

But if the money is not in place, no matter how good your contract is, the owner will also be dissatisfied.

This time, after the owner of the Hilton Hotel property in Hong Kong changed, Silas conducted an investigation and found that the new owner did not have a strong background, so he decided to make more profits for the “hotel” to improve his KPI, which is already a violation of Hilton Hotel’s policy Regulations, at least on the surface.

Silas thought for a while and said, "Let's see what's going on first. Maybe there's nothing wrong. If it's not possible, talk to Eric again, and just share a little profit with him at most."

"I hope so," Allen said.

Chen Zhiwen naturally paid close attention to the matter of the Hilton Hotel all the time, but the Independent Commission Against Corruption also had procedures, so Chen Zhiwen only had to wait.

On the 23rd, Chen Zhiwen attracted an unexpected guest, Woz came to Hong Kong.

"Sit." Chen Zhiwen took Woz to the sofa in the reception area, and said with a smile, "I thought you would come after New Year's Day, why did you come before Christmas?"

For Christmas in Europe and the United States, it is the same as for the New Year in China. Almost everyone has to stay at home.

"I spent Christmas alone in Los Angeles last year. It doesn't matter. I can also take a trip to Hong Kong, which is also very good." Woz replied with a smile.

"OK, all the expenses in Hong Kong will be reimbursed by the company, so you can have fun." Chen Zhiwen said politely.

"Thank you, Mr. Chen." Woz is also very casual, and he is also very calm when facing the boss. IT technicians can be well-fed wherever they go. In addition, they only like technology and don't understand the messy workplace rules.

"Then let's get to the point?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Okay." Woz nodded.

"Then take a look first. This is my brief description of the content of the game. I have registered patents for this game in major countries around the world, and you are responsible for digitizing it." Chen Zhiwen handed over a document.

Atari’s first game, Ping Pong, just forgot to register a patent. As a result, the game that could have earned millions of dollars a year only made $150,000. Later, it was forced to stop because the market was full of similar games and lost money. very big.

Naturally, Chen Zhiwen would not make such a mistake. The video game market just emerged in 1972-73, and piracy could cost millions of dollars. Today, when the market is more mature, once a mistake is made, the loss may be tens of millions of dollars, not to mention , the current arcade is an important foundation for his start.

"Okay." Woz took the file, which was described in both Chinese and English. He could only understand English, and the name of the game was GREEDY SNAKE.

The setting of the game is very simple. Use the game handle to control the direction of the snake up, down, left, and right, and look for something to eat. You can get a certain amount of points for each bite, and the snake's body will grow longer and longer. The longer the body, the more difficult it is to play. The bigger you are, you can't touch the wall, you can't bite your own body, let alone bite your own tail. After reaching a certain score, you can pass the level and continue to play the next level.

"This setting is a bit interesting." Woz said after reading it.

"Isn't it more interesting than Jobs' Arkanoid?" Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"It's not the same. It's not much different from the front when you play brick breaker. It's just that there are fewer bricks. This greedy snake will get longer and longer in the back, and the difficulty will increase greatly." Woz looked at it again. Look at the game description file.

This document not only described the setting, gameplay and rules of the game, but also described the difficulty behind it, and described it with graphics. Woz saw that such a long body was in a small box, and he could not touch the surroundings and could not touch it. Touching yourself is not so difficult.

"This is the only way to challenge yourself, isn't it? Atari's ping-pong and brick breaking are actually not difficult. They just speed up the ball by relying on the back, causing the user to react too late. This kind of gameplay, the number of times, the user Generally, there is no interest." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

Woz asked, "So, this snake doesn't speed up in the late game?"

"No, it's always been a speed. It's more interesting for the players to use their brains to see how to choose the direction." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

The biggest fun of Snake Snake is how to avoid collisions when the body grows in the later stage. This depends not only on the reaction speed, but also on the brain. When turning, you must think clearly about how to turn the next few steps. Otherwise, a mistake is suicide.

When this kind of error occurs, the user will also reflect on which step he went wrong before, and he will be more eager to play another game. This is the attraction that arcades should have, not the addition of balls like ping pong. speed to knock out players.

"That's true. It's just that the algorithm inside is more complicated. It's not difficult to design such a game, but if you want to design it so that users will fail within the time we set, you need to coordinate the algorithm." Woz thought for a while Said.

"In fact, don't worry too much about this. When the snake's body is too long, it will be easy to fail no matter what. As long as we try to put food near the snake's body, it's too easy to hit." Chen Zhiwen said calmly. I seldom play Snake, but I have played a lot of similar games. It is a normal operation to induce players to fail with bait. In this way, if the player succeeds, the satisfaction will be greatly improved. If it is over, it is very likely to rush to play another game.

Of course, this is more suitable for level-breaking games, such as games like Mario and Contra, and even Tetris. Snake’s gameplay and screen settings are destined to be far less attractive than the former. However, for people in the 1970s who have never seen the world, such a new game is enough to make them very happy. Who can imagine a brick breaker that 6-year-old children in the future will not be able to play, in this era for Atari Net profit of more than 10 million US dollars a year.

"That's okay, it's much simpler." Woz nodded, and placing food near the snake's body can greatly increase the risk of collisions. In this way, the algorithm required by the game is much simpler, which can reduce His workload can also save a lot of chip costs.

"When will it be designed, the first version?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"It is estimated that it will take about half a month. I need to design the game first, and then find a way to design the control board with the lowest number of chips." Woz thought for a while and said.

"Okay, there's no need to be in such a hurry. Reducing the number of chips is the most important thing." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, arcade machines are very important, but we can still wait for half a month. At present, the most important thing is to ensure the quality of the game and the cost of chips. find a balance.

"OK, I'll get this done as soon as possible," Woz promised.

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